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[Korrespondent] 22:25 Zelensky said that next year will be decisive: "We continue to prepare the defense and security forces of Ukraine for next year. This should be a decisive year. We understand what risks there are in winter, we understand what we must do in the spring, which means we understand what results must be demonstrated by the entire defense and security sector."
The President also said that the current week for Ukraine will be important from a political point of view: “We are entering the next year and must maintain a common understanding of our national goals. Of course, this is the liberation of our land from the enemy, as well as the restoration of Ukraine, the return of our people home, further rapprochement of our state with key partners, opening up new opportunities for Ukraine in the world - these are all the tasks for the near future. Soon I will present my view on the implementation of these tasks in the annual message to the Verkhovna Rada on the external and internal situation of Ukraine. I want this message was not a report, but our conversation with you about the next year."
22:16 The FSB announced the death of "Ukrainian saboteurs" on the territory of Russia, the information is confirmed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Everything that is known about what happened is in the material Death of "Ukrainian saboteurs" in the Russian Federation .
22:10 Kyiv receives stable volumes of electricity, albeit with limitations, Yasno CEO Sergei Kovalenko said. According to him, these volumes can be evenly distributed through temporary network reconnection schemes, but it is difficult to predict how the equipment will behave if the temperature drops significantly and consumption rises. In addition, we must not forget about the risk of new Russian attacks.
21:04 Italian Prime Minister George Meloni, during a conversation with Zelensky, confirmed her intention to come to Kiev and invited the Ukrainian president to visit Rome, her office said.
20:28 The Russians fired at the maternity ward of the hospital in Kherson, where two children were born today. In total, there are five women in the institution after giving birth, miraculously no one was hurt, the President's Office reported.
19:31 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed to create 16 military training centers at federal universities.
19:10 French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu announced that he would arrive in Kiev tomorrow: "On Wednesday I will be in Kiev for a working meeting with Alexei Reznikov. Our support for Ukraine has been constant since the beginning of the war."
19:07 There cannot be normal relations with today's Russia, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said: "We must be clearly aware that there cannot be normal relations with this Russia. Like many Russians, we want to see a peaceful and democratic Russia, which is not "a threat to our neighbors. But let's not have any illusions - we live in a different reality. That is why the task should be to strengthen our common security against Russia on an ongoing basis."
18:34 The enemy, despite significant losses in manpower, does not stop offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Limansky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening summary.
In the Luhansk region, due to significant losses of personnel, the number of cases of desertion of Russian military personnel and the abandonment of combat positions has increased. Because of this, the military leadership of the Russian Federation increased the number of patrols to detain and return deserters to their units.
18:17 Putin signed a decree banning the supply of Russian oil to countries that have joined the price ceiling, as well as under any contracts with any countries in which this ceiling is registered. Deliveries can be made only with the special permission of the President of the Russian Federation.
18:10 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that Orban's statements demonstrate "a pathological disregard for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people who oppose Russian aggression, as well as his own political myopia." The department emphasized that the defeat of Ukraine in the war, which Orban indirectly calls for, would lead to a direct threat of Russian aggression to Hungary and the Hungarians.
“The Hungarian leader should ask himself if he wants peace. If the answer is yes, he needs to use his close ties with Moscow to stop its aggression against Ukraine and withdraw its troops,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier, Orban said that if the United States stops giving money and weapons to Ukraine, then the war will stop.
This is possibly true. Certainly the character of the war would change.
17:41 Zelensky said that he had spoken with Italian Prime Minister George Meloni: "He expressed gratitude for the solidarity and comprehensive support of Ukraine. He welcomed the allocation of additional 10 million euros of assistance by the Italian government. George Meloni announced the consideration of providing air defense systems to protect the Ukrainian sky. Discussed the peace formula ".
17:22 Podolyak said that Russia usurped the right of veto in the UN Security Council: “Fatal mistakes must be corrected. The Russian Federation illegally took a seat in the UN Security Council. rights. It's time to return to the letter of the law and the UN Charter."
16:53 The State Border Service does not see the formation of an offensive grouping in Belarus, and Moscow and Minsk are escalating the situation, spokesman of the State Border Guard Service Andrey Demchenko said: "The units of Belarus are still on the strengthening of the border with our country, but neither the number nor the nature of the actions of these units are changing .Belarus and Russia are constantly escalating the situation, focusing on this direction."
16:30 The Russians fired on the city of Oleshki on the left bank of the Kherson region: one person was killed, five were injured, Mayor Yevgeny Ryshchuk said.
16:28 Lithuania awarded the 2022 Freedom Prize to Ukraine and President Zelensky. The decision was unanimously supported by all 113 Lithuanian legislators.
16:11 Shmyhal promised that in the absence of shelling, the New Year holidays will pass without emergency shutdowns. At the same time, he did not rule out new attacks: "We understand that Russia is preparing to continue attacks on the Ukrainian energy system. Therefore, we are in daily readiness for new massive shelling. This can happen anytime: today, tomorrow, or even on New Year's Eve."
15:49 Since the beginning of the year, the SBU has neutralized hundreds of cyber attacks on Ukrainian thermal power plants and oblenergos, of which almost 30 could become supercritical, Ilya Vityuk, head of the Cybersecurity Department, said: "Missile attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities are very often accompanied by cyber attacks. We were waiting for such a scenario, therefore none of them were effective."
According to him, since October, systemic cyberattacks of the Russian Federation have been taking place on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. Earlier, the enemy also attacked the electronic systems of Ukrainian energy facilities, although not so massively. "There were specific attempts to turn off the lights and destroy the digital infrastructure of individual regional power companies and thermal power plants. Fortunately, we were able to prevent this," Vityuk said.
14:53 The bodies of 42 fallen defenders were returned to Ukraine, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
14:49 Orban said that if the US stops giving money and weapons to Ukraine, the war will stop: "Ukraine can continue to fight only as long as the US supports them with money and weapons. If the Americans want peace, then there will be peace."
14:27 Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the Office of the President reported. The participants discussed the situation at the front, including near Bakhmut and Kremennaya. Separately, we focused on updating the action plan of the defense forces for the next year.
14:23 The Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 70 of the 250 Iranian drones from the second batch that Russia received, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Command of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said.
13:52 Sweden has additionally allocated about $19.1 million to support the defense of Ukraine, the Kingdom's embassy in Ukraine has reported.
13:23 In Ukraine, the property of the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov was arrested for almost UAH 2 billion, the SBU reported. In particular, as a result of investigative and operational actions, the location of underground warehouses of the Russian Federation was established, where more than 160 thousand tons of Ukrainian iron ore were stored. Hidden raw materials were found on the territory of several Ukrainian seaports. Representatives of the Russian Federation tried to illegally transport him by sea to the territory of Russia.
12:47 Podolyak said that Ukraine will carry out the demilitarization of Russia to the end: "Neither total mobilization, nor panic searches for shells, nor secret contracts with Iran, nor Lavrov's threats will help ... Russia should realize the reality. Ukraine will carry out the demilitarization of the Russian Federation to the end, will expel the occupiers from all the occupied territories. Silently wait for the final…"
12:29 The Russians have changed the location of strategic aviation - its activity has been significantly reduced, said Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In his opinion, the dispersal is connected with yesterday's explosions at the military airfield in Engels. Ignat added that there are still a few planes at this airfield, and the threat of a massive rocket attack has not passed. Perhaps the Russians only made certain adjustments to their plans.
11:51 Putin resorts to nuclear rhetoric under certain circumstances - when he is desperate and feels his failures, Borrell said: "It is obvious that someone who recklessly violates the UN Charter and international law and despairs if things do not turn out the way he wants , threatens to use everything in its arsenal of terror without hesitation."
At the same time, the head of European diplomacy stressed that the EU and the majority of the international community reject Russia's irresponsible nuclear blackmail: "And I think that those who decide in Moscow on the possible use of nuclear weapons have heard this."
11:27 The capacity deficit in the energy system has slightly decreased due to the increase in the production of power plants. After emergency recovery work, a unit at one of the thermal power plants, which was damaged during one of the latest Russian missile attacks, was switched on to the network, Ukrenergo reported.
However, the available capacity in the system is still not enough to meet all the needs of consumers in the country, as the level of consumption has increased. This is due to the phased return to operation of power grids damaged during massive attacks, as well as the restoration of energy infrastructure in the de-occupied territories. Accordingly, the number of consumers who have at least partially resumed electricity supply has increased, and the volume of industry consumption is also growing. In this regard, consumption limits have been brought to all regions.
10:53 Yermak announced important events: "Important events are ahead. We have no right to relax, because we have an important goal - reaching the borders of 1991."
10:35 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, SBU cyber experts have exposed more than 1,200 agitators who have been spreading fakes and Russian narratives on the Internet, said Ilya Vityuk, head of the Cybersecurity Department of the Security Service. At the same time, 600 defendants were reported on suspicion and almost 230 were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
In addition, 45 large-scale bot farms with a capacity of more than 2 million fake accounts, almost 500 pro-Russian YouTube channels with an audience of more than 15 million subscribers, and about a thousand information resources that worked against Ukraine have already been blocked this year.
Could this be why we’ve had fewer hysterical posters — on both sides — recently?
09:46 In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is increasing pressure with the number of infantry, Deputy Commander of the Svoboda Battalion Vladimir Nazarenko said: "The situation continues to be tense, the enemy continues to go crazy. They are trying to further increase the pressure with the number of infantry. I am shocked by the amount of manpower that they use. Groups of occupiers are marching across the fields, we are crushing them with artillery, small arms, but they still go and try to storm in large groups."
09:20 British intelligence reports that over the past 48 hours, the fighting in Ukraine has continued to be concentrated around Bakhmut and Svatovo, the Russians carry out frequent attacks in these areas and managed to capture a small territory.
Meanwhile, in the north, parts of the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army were among the Russian forces recently deployed to Belarus. The unit likely conducted pre-deployment drills and is unlikely to have the support units needed to put it on alert, analysts say.
08:59 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 27th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Liman directions.
personnel - about 103,220 (+620) people liquidated,
tanks - 3016 (+0),
armored combat vehicles - 6024 (+7),
artillery systems - 1998 (+2),
MLRS - 418 (+0),
air defense systems - 212 (+0),
aircraft - 283 (+0),
helicopters - 267 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1707 (+0),
cruise missiles - 653 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4652 (+5),
special equipment - 179 (+1).
08:48 Heavy fighting continues near the Kremennaya Luhansk region, the occupiers are pulling a huge amount of reserves and equipment there, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, militants "are dying there by the hundreds." The Russians understand that in the event of the loss of Kremennaya, their entire line of defense in the Luhansk region will be violated. Gaidai noted that the success in this sector of the front is on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russians occupied all the forest belts and mined everything around them. Most of the minions took place remotely, so they don’t even have mining maps.
08:37 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is ready to mediate at the peace summit initiated by Ukraine in February, provided that all parties agree with this, said the representative of the organization Florencia Soto Niño-Martinez.
08:23 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region and Dilievka, Krasnogorovka, Vodyane, Vesele, Maryinka and Pobeda in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report .
On December 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the concentration of Russian manpower near Novobelozerka, Vasilyevsky district, Zaporozhye region. The losses of the enemy amounted to 100 servicemen dead and wounded, among them 15 FSB officers.
01:57 The Russians have set themselves the goal of reaching the administrative border of the Donetsk region before the end of the year, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, Bakhmut is now the "eastern fortress" of Ukraine, where the enemy concentrated the most military equipment and weapons: "There was a slight advance, but the enemy was driven out. As of today, the enemy is trying to surround the city, but they also fail ".
00:43 Podolyak said that various incidents on the territory of the Russian Federation, including in Engels, are an objective consequence of the war, and in the future there will be "very, very many" of them. "Everything that is happening in Russia today - and the number of excesses, and not only in Engels, is growing - is related to the loss of control over processes in Russia itself. The number of sabotages, unidentified explosions, and fires at critical facilities, including in Engels, is constantly growing and Diaghilev," Podolyak said.
In his opinion, fires on the territory of the Russian Federation occur due to the fact that the country cannot get foreign spare parts, as well as expert advice.
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[RIA] European Council President Charles Michel said that "it is necessary to develop a mechanism to 'suspend' Russia's membership in the UN Security Council. The European Union (and the European Council is its backbone institution along with the European Commission and the European Parliament ) is going, therefore, to start reviewing the results of the Second World War. "Psssst. Molotov-Ribbentrop" Continued on Page 49
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#5 Next they'll wanna say Germany never killed any Jews.
Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-28 12:50
Dron,
Sadly, it's coming. I've said for years that when the men who liberated the camps disappeared, and the liberated themselves followed, we will start hearing about how the Holocaust never happened.
And then may God have mercy on our souls.
Mike
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^ Perhaps we could start a rumor that Hitler was a Republican.
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So Obama was right when he said who really liberated Auschwitz?
It’s already happening. A few of them have commented here over the years, thinking to find a welcoming home — the next step after proclaiming Israel the most evil nation on Earth.
But mostly it appears on the Progressive left, Jew-hatred being a major theme inherited from the old Soviet Union.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:19 Ukraine has used up not only NATO weapons, but also Soviet-made weapons, Alaudinov said. 21:03 Fierce fighting near Artyomovsk continue. Artillery works incessantly 24 hours a day, Russian PMC infantry storms the city from different directions.
20:05 In the LPR, the National Guard revealed a number of caches with ammunition -video
In the forest area in the area of N. p. In Lisichansk, soldiers discovered a warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ammunition, which contained about 30 high-explosive fragmentation shells of various calibers and two anti-tank mines. The sappers of the Russian Guard destroyed the ammunition with an overhead charge in compliance with security measures.
19:27 At altitude at any time of the day: the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces perform combat missions even in complete darkness -video
18:23 Fighting in the Lisichansk direction: artillerymen inflicted a fire defeat on the manpower of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
18:17 All over Ukraine announced air alert.
17:30 Russian special forces attacked American mercenaries from drones. The place of action is Ukraine today. They say that the Russian hospitality did not go down to the Americans, and they plaintively whined "help" -video
17:28 Night patrol: how the crews of the Su-30cm and Su-35s aircraft perform combat missions in absolute darkness -video
17:26 The combat work of Russian artillerymen to destroy the Ukrainians in the Soledarsky sector -video
17:25 Russian artillery is working closely on the Ukrainians -video
16:22 Backyard of the field hospital in Artemovsk overwhelmed clothes of the wounded and killed Ukrainian militants.
16:21 Fighters of the "O" group destroyed the car of Ukrainian terrorists -video
14:55 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (December 27, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, as a result of artillery strikes on enemy manpower and equipment in the area of the settlement of Peschanoe, Luhansk People's Republic, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire inflicted a defeat on units of the 11th territorial defense brigade in the area of the settlement of Torskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks.
In the Donetsk direction, in the course of successful offensive operations, units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated. Up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles and seven vehicles were destroyed.
In the South Donetsk direction, as a result of a complex fire engagement of enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Prechistovka and Uspenovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed in a day.
The reserve command post of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 67 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 89 districts were hit by missile forces and artillery.
During the counterbattery fight in the area of the settlement of Netaylovo, a firing position was opened and the US-made M777 artillery system, from which shelling of residential areas of the city of Donetsk, was destroyed along with the calculation. Another M777 artillery system was destroyed near the village of Preobrazhenka in the Zaporozhye region.
In the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic and Seversk of the Donetsk People's Republic, a combat vehicle of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system, as well as two combat vehicles of the 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, were destroyed.
In the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorovka and Prechistovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, two Ukrainian self-propelled artillery mounts 122mm 2S1 "Gvozdika" were destroyed at firing positions. Four 152mm towed howitzer Msta-B howitzers and two 152mm D-20 towed howitzers were destroyed in the districts of the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, Velikaya Novoselka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Novogrigorovka in the Kherson region.
During the day, air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Olginka, Guselskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Peremozhnoe, Zaporozhye region.
In addition, two missiles of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system were intercepted near the village of Kostogryzovo in the Kherson region, as well as three US-made anti-radar missiles HARM near the city of Debaltseve in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 352 aircraft, 192 helicopters, 2,734 unmanned aerial vehicles, 399 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,267 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 947 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,729 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 7,779 units of special military vehicles.
14:23 In Bakhmut (Artemovsk), Russian troops continue to clear the streets from Ukronazis -video
12:57 Destruction of a truck with ammunition by our artillery. Area Terny, front Svatovo-Kremennaya -video
12:51 Combat work of 122mm BM-21 "Grad" MLRS crews to destroy ukrofascists in the Bakhmutsky (Artyomovsky) sector -video
11:30 An effective link between the work of UAV operators and artillerymen of the allied forces in the destruction of ukrofascists in the Soledar sector -video
10:43 An effective link between the work of UAV operators and artillerymen of the allied forces in the destruction of Ukrainians in one of the directions -video
10:42 Combat work of the crew of the attack helicopter Ka-52 "Alligator" of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces to destroy the armored vehicles of the Ukrainians with the guided missile "Whirlwind-1" -video
10:40 Effective work of Russian artillery against a group of Ukrainians in one of the directions -video
10:39 The equipment of the Ukrainian soldiers denazified by Russian artillery at the crossing -video
10:35Ukrainians continue to suffer heavy losses in the dead and wounded in the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) sector -video
Ukrainian recorded a suicide video before the battle, as Russian units outnumber them.
10:30 RF Armed Forces are working on Ukrainian positions in a constant mode, not letting them raise their heads -video
08:35 Destroyed by the Russian army in the battles for Artyomovsk Nazi- ex-journalist and director from Kherson Anton Kolomiets.
The death of a 34-year-old militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was announced by the National Council of Ukraine for Television and Radio Broadcasting.
08:21 Tankers of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces destroy firing points of enemy in MarinkaDNR.
The work is carried out in the interests of the infantry - so that the fighters can move through the settlement and knock out the enemy from the Maryinsky fortified area without fear of enemy fire from the windows of the upper floors and pillboxes.
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[REGNUM] Estonian President Alar Karis approved a law providing that the language of instruction in all schools and kindergartens must be exclusively Estonian. The Estonian elites have come close to realizing their long-standing goal of depriving the local Russian community of the means of reproduction and thereby achieving its assimilation.
It doesn’t sound like the Russians are forbidden to set up after evening or weekend classes in their own language. In America it is not only the Jews who have Hebrew school for religious and language instruction, but the Chinese, Koreans, and no doubt others. Even the Catholics and Protestant sects set up their own schools for religious instruction for those who cannot or will not send their children to private religious schools. I realize it’s hard to give up the idea of the Russian empire, but if y’all are not willing to be fully participating citizens of the country, you ought to move your children back to the current territory of Mother Russia.
In Estonia, Russian-speakers make up to 30% of the population, in Tallinn they are almost half - up to 47%. Previously, in elementary schools of national minorities, Russian children had the opportunity to study in their native language, and at the so-called “gymnasium level” (grades 10–12), up to 40% of teaching could be carried out in a “non-state” language. For the ruling Estonian parties, this order of things seemed too liberal, and there were constant proposals to transfer education in schools of national minorities “only to the state language.”
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[REGNUM] Zakharova responded with a quote from Vysotsky's song to the renaming of the street that bore his name in Izyum
The renaming of Vladimir Vysotsky Street in the Ukrainian city of Izyum was commented by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on December 27 in her telegram channel.
“In Izyum, Vladimir Vysotsky Street was renamed Steve Jobs Street. Probably, they cannot forgive the poet for the prophetic lines “Oh, Van, look what clowns,” Zakharova wrote, quoting the poet’s song “Dialogue at the TV.”
Recall that in the city of Izyum, as part of the campaign to “de-Russify” the country, the city authorities decided to rename 19 streets that bore the names of Russian and Soviet prominent figures.
Streets named after musician Viktor Tsoi, composer Alexander Alyabyev and others have disappeared from the city map.
Read earlier in this story: The authorities of the city of Izyum decided to rename the streets as part of "derussification".
Were any of them actually Ukrainian, or had the Soviets replaced the local street names with heroic Communist figures in a campaign to de-Ukrainize the country?
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In relation to the discussion about the battles for Artemovsk.
1. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, for political and operational reasons, will continue to try to hold Artemivsk for as long as possible. Moreover, it seems that political reasons now prevail over purely military ones.
2. The transfer of reserves to Artemovsk, Opytnoe and Chasov Yar is carried out, among other things, to the detriment of ambitious offensive plans, which also indicates the current prioritization of the enemy command. Heavy losses and political tasks force this to be done.
3. Based on the experience of the battles for Popasnaya and previous actions, such as blowing up bridges and preparing positions in the city center, the enemy will conduct defensive operations, with the option of withdrawing to prepared positions in the central and western parts of Artemovsk. Further, in the event of the loss of the city and a forced rollback in the direction of Konstantinovka, they will defend themselves in the Chasov Yar area.
4. In the city itself, the battles will gradually move into residential development and the repetition of already known paintings - Mariupol, Popasnaya, Severodonetsk. The city itself will obviously be very badly destroyed.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/73749 - zinc
PS. Ukrainian sources report the destruction of another Ukrainian director Anton Kolomiyets in Artemovsk.
Judging by the death of "cultural figures" in Artemovsk, this is a consequence of the transfer of parts of the Volkssturm to the city after the shabby 93rd Brigade was put on rotation, as a result of which the "Ukrainian creative intelligentsia" ended up on the front line, which is now being reset there.
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Russian forces have been pushed out of Bakhmut (Artemovsk). In the east, completely out of the suburban housing, past the winery and to the cement plant.
In the southeast, to the garbage dump.
In the south, to the edge of Opytne. Ukrainians control Opytne.
Commentary mostly by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Statistics of shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian army in December.
Analysis based on data from the DPR JCCC as of December 25, 2022 inclusive.
The most shelled cities of the DPR in December:
- Donetsk - 442 times
- Gorlovka - 126 times
- Makiivka - 74 times
- Yasinovataya - 72 times
On average, Donetsk alone receives about 18 strikes per day. In December, 2120 shells arrived in Donetsk. This is an average of 85 shells per day.
Most often, Donetsk is shelled from Krasnogorovka, Netaylovo, Orlovka and Thin.
- Krasnogorovka - 158 times
- Netaylovo - 151 times
- Orlovka - 79 times
- Tonenkoye - 35 times
Most of the attacks on Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are carried out from the American howitzer of 155mm M777 caliber - only 1,413 shells, which is 67% of the total number of attacks in December. Shelling from the 122mm BM-21 "Grad" is 21% of arrivals. 8% falls on the rest of the MLRS. And only 4% are Soviet shells of 152 caliber.
This once again confirms the great shortage of shells in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which has to be compensated by the supply of NATO shells. But they are also very limited, but they benefit from accuracy.
According to the dynamics of shelling, it can be assumed that the supply of ammo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is carried out on average once every six days.
The RF Armed Forces are fighting for Pervomaiskoye, Vodyanoye, and Marinka to expand the zone of control around Donetsk, to exclude the shelling of the city from the MLRS and to reduce the intensity and accuracy of strikes from M777 howitzers.
The displacement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Vodyanoye made it possible to establish air control over enemy positions in Tonenkoe. Now the number of shellings of Donetsk from the territory of the village has sharply decreased.
The advance from Vodyanoye to the north and the occupation of Tonenkoe will ensure not only the operational encirclement of Avdievka, but also the cessation of shelling of MLRS from Orlovka.
[Wash Examiner] A German agent who works for the country’s foreign intelligence service is accused of accessing secret information about the Ukraine war and transmitting it to Russian officials.
German officials are investigating whether the agent was blackmailed into committing treason.
The accused double agent, who was only identified as Carsten L, was reportedly a senior surveillance official in the Federal Intelligence Service and was tasked with analyzing information received through wiretaps. As part of this position, the agent had access to wiretap operations run by other Western countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States.
“The accused is suspected of state treason,” prosecutors said. “In 2022, he transmitted information that he had obtained in the course of his professional activities to Russian intelligence services.”
The agent is accused of obtaining information about the war in Ukraine from Britain’s GCHQ spy agency and the U.S. National Security Agency and passing the materials along to Russian forces, according to local news outlets. Carsten L was arrested on charges of suspected treason last week and is currently being held in custody.
It’s not clear the motive behind transferring the information, but German officials are investigating whether the agent was blackmailed into doing so, according to German broadcaster Tagesschau. An instance of blackmail would mark a significant effort by the Russian government to undermine Western intelligence.
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I wonder if his parents were 'Osties' who told him of how they enjoyed being nomklatura
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